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  • School Board Committee Votes To Ban “Dixie” Song & Rebel Mascot At Southside High School (AR)

    06/25/2015 1:46:00 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 30 replies
    KFSM, CBS 5, Fort Smith, AR ^ | 10:36PM, June 23, 2015 | Zuzanna Sitek and Aubry Killon
    A Fort Smith School Board committee passed a motion Tuesday (June 23) to ban the “Dixie” song during the 2015-2016 school year and to replace the rebel mascot for the 2016-2017 school year. The motion passed five to zero. Susan McFerran, a member of the school board, said the decision comes after the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina and a recent class reunion. “There was a 30 year class reunion this weekend,” she said. “It came to our attention that the public has been pretty upset about the Confederate flag, which has already been removed, the rebel mascot [and]...
  • Robert E.Lee High to cheer for Patriot mascot next year

    04/07/2005 10:54:44 AM PDT · by Ellesu · 84 replies · 3,028+ views
    2theadvocate.com ^ | 04/07/05 | SONYA KIMBRELL and CHARLES LUSSIER
    'Rebels' fading away BATON ROUGE: Images of Colonel Rebel are hard to find at Baton Rouge's Robert E. Lee High School, but the school mascot has been the Rebels since 1959. That will change next year. The Lee High Rebels will be known next year as the Patriots, thanks to the school's decision late last month to change its mascot. As the Rebels, the school had long ago abandoned Confederate flags and the more-controversial practices associated with schools named after Southern Civil War leaders. While he approves that decision, Principal David Phillips said being the Rebels without really being the...